LSO Masterclass - Piccolo

[DemoWuvsDomo]

@IMonteCarloSS1987 Wow nice come back, loser!!!

[forglegorktheork]

Your embouchure has to be PERFECT to play the piccolo. It's pitched so high that the lowest c is played like a mid-octave c on a regular flute. It's nuts, I can barely play one.

[venskus2009]

i bet my trombone is louder than your faggoty ass pic. youre just stupidly high so you stand out like hell

[DemoWuvsDomo]

@venskus2009 no one cares about trombones a**hole!

[fuelhead3]

shut the fuck up and get a vuvuzela

[kototamabushi]

Please, can somebody tell me why is Mr Davies (that is a marvellous flute player) that hold the piccolo lesson insted the more qualified principal piccolo player? Thanks

[goingtobe]

maybe you would like this Piccolo player.

just write the word FREAKOLLO, and you would get to a 2 parts piccolo concerto enjoy.

[growlsoup159]

Did he just call us "leeper heads" in 3:18????

[PianoOnWheels]

No, he said: "If you leap ahead to bar eighty."

[razrv3lc]

I wish I could play like this!

[keiarisg102]

very useful !

[revoltingmexican]

there are no females in this orchestra. not even this guy.

[saddiie034]

thanks for all the useful information on piccolo , you helped me a lot on my composition :)

[travel2165]

HotStew, you really don't have a clue. When a wood piccolo is recorded with a mic so close, you'll hear lots of partials that might seem to you like lower octaves. If you were to hear him at the proper distance and proper volume, you wouldn't hear those.

Or were you REALLY confused by the piece?

Didn't you realize that he's deliberately alternating high and lower octaves in many of the "fast notes" sections? He even explains that in his narration.

Duh.

[YodelRock]

wtf is a piccolo ?

[BBQJester]

A small flute, it's one octave higher than a flute.

[YodelRock]

oh ok...

[HotStew]

No disrespect, but piccolo playing is not your forte.

Whenever you played moderately fast notes, the tone crushed down to the lower octave quite often.

[BBQJester]

No disrespect but your remarks makes no sense.

[HotStew]

My "remarks makes" perfect sense. If you have no clue what I'm talking about, how about asking me to explain instead of bashing me because you don't understand?

[BBQJester]

If you think the Principle Flautist from the London Symphony Orchestra is not good, then post a video of yourself playing a piccolo better than him before making comments.

[HotStew]

Oh, now you go real kiddy style, huh?

I won't even bother with you anymore.

[XEA6L]

That's PHYSICS! come on, guys! Because of the short body and narrow bore size of the piccolo, up close, when playing high notes on the piccolo, it tends to sound like a crushed octave. Really, those are the harmonics that give the piccolo its sound. Control of the harmonics is beyond the player, as it deals with the length of the instrument, and the material it is made from.

[marcomocios]

IT'S TRUE!!!

[ledhead154]

..."Triple forte"? Seriously? Geeze, and this guy is a professional?

[Gravitytrick123]

What word do you use for fff ? Is there correct one cuz I don't know it

[ledhead154]

Yes, there is: fortississimo.

The same pattern goes for ppp, pianississimo

[Gravitytrick123]

Oh right. Well I hope you get to go to Carnegie Hall to correct him in person. I'm glad we have people like you to point out mistakes like this. Have u uploaded your piccolo audition yet. I'd love to see it

[ledhead154]

Haha, wow. Thank you.

I don't play piccolo, actually. I'm a singer. If only Tan Dun had included a vocal part for this piece...

[kathleenhannah]

nope! ppp stands for piano-pianissimo...at least that's what i was told...

[Concertmaster3]

@kathleenhannah

ppp=pianississimo

[kathleenhannah]

ok, you know, i asked wikipedia and found out: in english you call ppp pianississimo, but this is not the case in

German (and possibly other languages/country, too, I can't tell)

dear old GERMAN wikipedia says:

"ppp (pianissimo piano, piano pianissimo or pianissimo possibile),"

oh well...learned a lesson today, both of us! Let's lay down our swords, TRUCE! :)

Go in peace and enjoy the heavenly music!

[Gorgalisin]

@Concertmaster3 in Finland it's piano pianissimo

[ThaSchwab]

There is no term for three f's. You have forte and fortissimo.

[pianomancuber91]

wouldn't it be fortississimo? that's the vernacular I've always heard.

[Demoras]

Yes there is. Of course there is one. It's called fortissimo possibile, as loud as possible.

[luck4fuck]

i have a piece with 3 f's in it

[ThaSchwab]

I never said they didn't exist. Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture has fffff, I believe, but there is no true term for it.

[TSDFurReal]

There is a term for fffff. It's fortississississimo.

[razrv3lc]

that's really funny! i'm not being sarcastic either! sounds like something I would have said!

[TSDFurReal]

I'm not sure how to respond when I say some of the stupidest crap ever so I'll just chuckle and nod :D

[futureKJN]

no its not fortississississimo, its just emphisizing to BE LOUD

[192asso]

fffff isn't fortississississimo,it's "molto molto molto molto forte" or "fortissimissimo" i'm italian,truth in me

[xXYourHotFriendXx]

ohhh! i play flute and piccolo in band =) im 1st chair, i so happy! i wanna play like that cuase that is good!

[jaykay1615]

I played that J.S. Bach peice (all movements) for my Junior Houston Symphony audition in 7th grade. And on piccolo! I love that song!

I'm definately auditioning for this!

[lemurrrrrr]

Okay. Time to start practicing.

Goodluck all you piccolo players out there.

You're going to need it!

[pyrioni]

what I should do in front of the camera during those long rests (18 bars at tempo 80), I sit and wait while filming?

[DiePennSocke]

I think you can wait some moments and than start with the next part^^

[pyrioni]

Question: Can I just play the Tan Dun piece and skip the audition? becoz I don't have time to play the audition pieces and I don't want to go to UK.

[CrikeyCheyenne]

Prepared to get ownd. :]

[mooology]

I'm sorta torn, I am a piccolo player, but also a flautist. I am at amus level (got an a in my 8th grade exam) and was just wondering if I could have some advice on which I would have a better chance in.

[TrixChic]

most definatly picc. not many ppl can play picc well, so if ur good at that u'll stand out in a positive way

[DiePennSocke]

sorry, i don`t speak english normaly, so what does "flautist" mean?

[TheFearow]

Flute player

[mooology]

flute player

[TheRealShadoninja]

technically a flauto player, which is another word for flute.

[TheRealShadoninja]

well sry if it's true.

[redcrabtreek]

note check at 1:59?!

stick with flute....

[andyisntemo]

So what internationally renowned orchestra are you in? :)

[vivsmiles]

lol, that note that you talk of is a semiquaver, so it wouldn't really be the end of the world if he got it out of tune, but it's perfectly in tune anyway, so... point nullification to you.

However, I do agree with you in that he should stick with the flute. He keeps splitting those bloody notes, and it's awful to listen to.

[pyrioni]

I agree, but he's not the piccoloist, he's the principal flautist - normally in orchestra, principals don't need to play the picc

[vodouchild79]

i was thinking the same thing. there's no way the 2nd and 3rd notes played in bar 105are the same; the second one sounds closer to an A! But he gets it right when he plays it again, slower.. but mistakedly refers to this as bar 106.

Also: at 1:49,the first note of the Allegro vivace, bar 98, is supposed to be a TOP G#, not a middle one.

And at 3:11, three middle F's are played at the beginning of bar 58, when there are meant to be only two. This extra note changes the bar to 7/16!

[yazzflaute]

mmm, piccolo is the greatest ^^ ill think of trying for this "Youtube Symphony Orchestra" on piccolo xD

[100flyingfish]

great legato

[BitchIStoleYourFish]

charming

[bubblemilktea]

i liked playing the piccolo, and i could get all my notes out but, second octave E flat just never came out right. It was always really airy.

[jlewisj]

So what's going on with the extra F at the beginning of bar 58?

[KittyMaverick]

I remember playing the piccolo (while was normally a flute player) for full orchestra in high school. It was difficult; a lot more difficult than the flute. And then when our performance was over, it took me a month to re-adjust back to the flute.

However, I'm sure there has got to be some great piccolo players out there. Surely they will tackle this and execute something beyond our imagination!

[Kawazoekun]

I don't really like the piccolo.

Too loud and high.

But sounds like a hard instrument to play. D:

[Gredran]

well with everything else playing, its pretty cool. alone i agree, it can get annoying

[chrisxy123]

You have to get used to it and then it's as easy (or as hard) as the normal flute. Only smaller...

The piccolo is high, yes, but it's only too high when the componist says so. And I really hate this, especially practicing in a small room up to c5...

[Kawazoekun]

Sounds hard.

Especially for the musicians ears. D:

[ThaSchwab]

Oh wow, shut up.

[Kaslsd]

@ThaSchwab its an instructional video dude.. hes supposed to talk. he is going over everything that he thinks most people will have problems with.

[ThaSchwab]

@Kaslsd

I may have been responding to someone else's comment.

[Kaslsd]

@ThaSchwab oooh :P